Speaker 1: Welcome into the Ravens Press Past Podcast. Today was the
Speaker 1: final day of practice here in London before the Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens face the Tennessee Titans this Sunday. After practice, we
Speaker 1: heard from head coach John Harbaugh as well as Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews and Marlon Humphrey. We'll start things off with Coach Harbaugh.
Speaker 2: Good to see everybody. Appreciate everybody being here. A good practice,
Speaker 2: been a really good week. I really appreciate Tottenham, the
Speaker 2: Hotspurs and all the people here from security right on
Speaker 2: through to coach and and everybody else has just been outstanding.
Speaker 2: So we are grateful and we're ready to play. We're
Speaker 2: pointing towards Sunday, all eyes on the game and we're
Speaker 2: looking forward to it. So what question do you have?
Speaker 3: How do you now that you've been here? Seems like
Speaker 3: pretty much a pool with like, you know, five days
Speaker 3: now time and justin you. How do you think you
Speaker 3: and the rest of the players kind of feel well?
Speaker 2: I gave you by me. You know, if I feel good,
Speaker 2: they feel good, right, That's how I feel. It's I
Speaker 2: think we're all kind of on the same deal. So
Speaker 2: feel great, got good rest and guys are in good spirits.
Speaker 2: I really picked up yesterday and carried over to today.
Speaker 2: So we're in a good place.
Speaker 3: The coach. Yes, so you had the interaction with the
Speaker 3: coach Pains of Ookloom. How was that interaction.
Speaker 4: Sharing ideas with a coach in soccer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome, it's awesome. But I feel like it's interesting.
Speaker 2: You know, you talk about the world of sport. You know,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a big world out there, yet the
Speaker 2: world of sport, it is kind of a small community,
Speaker 2: and we're we're talking about coaching and you know, players
Speaker 2: and how the staffs are organized maybe and you know,
Speaker 2: how you relate to your guys and the different the
Speaker 2: different nuances of it. Yet it's still the same thing.
Speaker 2: It's still it's still coaching and mentoring maybe and game
Speaker 2: planning and all the kind of challenges and family. We
Speaker 2: talked about family quite a bit. He's got young kids
Speaker 2: and talking about his family moving around, you know, the
Speaker 2: last fifteen years they've done a lot of moving around.
Speaker 2: So that was really interesting to hear about. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a fan of those guys.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys obviously moved into or today.
Speaker 6: That's just because of all the rain yesterday, what was the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was both. I mean we were supposed to
Speaker 2: kind of rain today anyway, and I did then it
Speaker 2: you know, then it got nice of course, So nice job, Chad,
Speaker 2: very smooth. That's our Chad steal everybody. He actually does
Speaker 2: a great job. But then we decided to do it
Speaker 2: as a walk through type practice format, so that's what
Speaker 2: we did.
Speaker 7: Coach, you mentioned the playoff spirits are your spirits because
Speaker 7: the last couple of the press conferences it seems like
Speaker 7: the twenty seventeen gate still haunts.
Speaker 5: You of it.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it gets gets keep brought keeps getting
Speaker 2: brought up by all you know, my people here. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like they asked me over there, and I've been
Speaker 2: asked about it in the off season, got asked about,
Speaker 2: you know, during training camp, and got asked about three
Speaker 2: weeks ago before we even thinking about coming here. Then
Speaker 2: I got asked about last week, and now I'm asked
Speaker 2: about it over here in England. So yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: it's a big deal, you know, but it's behind us. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's a last week is behind us. I mean that's
Speaker 2: really how it works, you know. It's that was six
Speaker 2: years ago. No, you don't forget. Yeah, you don't forget.
Speaker 2: You never forget anything, you know, because it all matters.
Speaker 2: It's so important to us. And yet we work so hard,
Speaker 2: you know, and yet you got to move on to
Speaker 2: the next challenge. And the next challenge is the one
Speaker 2: that's right in front of us. It's Tennessee Titans in
Speaker 2: an amazing stadium over there, and it's going to be
Speaker 2: an amazing crowd. We know, we got to deal with
Speaker 2: crowd noise and we got to deal with our opponents.
Speaker 2: So we're trying to focus on that.
Speaker 8: And I don't know that we've asked you about Keaton
Speaker 8: Mitchell since he's been activated. What have you seen from
Speaker 8: him and could he be a factor when you're making
Speaker 8: your game plans for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's doing good, doing a good job, and he
Speaker 2: could be a factor. We'll see how it goes. You know,
Speaker 2: he was eligible possibly last week as well.
Speaker 9: John, we haven't asked you too much a Dafe. I mean,
Speaker 9: he's a better man, you know. I know he doesn't
Speaker 9: practice goal this week. Any update kind of on you
Speaker 9: know what he's going through right now because it's been
Speaker 9: a few weeks before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he's on point. He's been working really hard.
Speaker 2: I think it's just a it's a process with that
Speaker 2: kind of an ankle spray, and you know, when he's
Speaker 2: ready to go, he'll be ready, you know. And it's
Speaker 2: kind of getting in that neighborhood now, so we'll see
Speaker 2: how it feels you can being ready.
Speaker 3: You guys, you know, they're probably as healthy as you
Speaker 3: have been in a while. How important is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's super important. I mean, you know, and then
Speaker 2: with that, guys getting back, you know and playing, you know,
Speaker 2: just jumping there and play and sometimes you do. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you jump and have a great game, and sometimes you know,
Speaker 2: you got to kind of get a feel for it again.
Speaker 2: But all of our guys are working their way back,
Speaker 2: and I'm proud of them. I mean, they've done a
Speaker 2: great job of doing everything they can do to get
Speaker 2: back be as healthy and strong as they can be.
Speaker 2: And and you know, we're very close to full strength.
Speaker 2: So that's that's a big deal. That's a plus. Proud
Speaker 2: of the guys that played it, and they're also good.
Speaker 2: So I just got to throw it out there on
Speaker 2: Sunday and try to get after it.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I gotta go back to twenty seventeen. We're pretty
Speaker 4: angry after that game. Do you feel the spirits within
Speaker 4: the team is different to twenty seventeen. I mean you've
Speaker 4: changed your whole different approach. You're here since.
Speaker 2: Monday, Yeah, I mean, our guys are characterizing someone's emotions
Speaker 2: is pretty presumptuous. So you know, I don't I don't
Speaker 2: really remember how it was, but probably had a whole
Speaker 2: gamut of emotions at that point in time, you know,
Speaker 2: because you know you want to you want to put
Speaker 2: your best foot forward in every game. That was an
Speaker 2: important game six years ago, and this is an important
Speaker 2: game coming up this week. So and I'm hoping to
Speaker 2: be a lot happier after this one than we were
Speaker 2: after that last one.
Speaker 7: Got's a bit of aboard the question what are the
Speaker 7: most challenging and most rewarding aspects of this kind of
Speaker 7: trip mid season?
Speaker 2: The challenge obviously is that it's different. You know, it's
Speaker 2: out of your it's out of your comfort zone, just
Speaker 2: being away from your facility and your home and the guys.
Speaker 2: It's just it's different that way, so it can throw
Speaker 2: you off. Obviously, the time change is real, so that's
Speaker 2: part of the travel is legit, you know, and now
Speaker 2: we have you know, this is like going to Seattle
Speaker 2: time wise, but what we're coming east, which we don't
Speaker 2: do very often. The pluses are it's an opportunity to
Speaker 2: obviously expand your kind of horizons in terms of fans
Speaker 2: and people and all those kinds of things, but also
Speaker 2: in terms of I think togetherness. You know, we have
Speaker 2: a chance to be together. We're traveling together, we're at
Speaker 2: the hotel together, we're traveling on the buses over here.
Speaker 2: Guys are having fun. You know, we're kind of all ball.
Speaker 2: We're all ball here together. So we get a chance
Speaker 2: to kind of grow a little closer I think, and
Speaker 2: get a little more on the same page maybe than
Speaker 2: we would have if we haven't been here. So you've
Speaker 2: got both those things.
Speaker 9: John h.
Speaker 6: With all the focus on the receivers or you guys
Speaker 6: able to bring over judge machines that didn't see them
Speaker 6: on the judge machines.
Speaker 2: Drugs, Oh yeah, I know, we couldn't bring the drugs over.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was that was yeah. They had they had
Speaker 2: of drugs here. You saw. We tried to use it
Speaker 2: for the the punts, but didn't have enough juice. So
Speaker 2: I think it's a little, it's a little. It's a
Speaker 2: little the judge machinem we had put it this way
Speaker 2: was a little over the hill. It's a little over
Speaker 2: the hill. It's seen better days.
Speaker 3: It's possible you may have.
Speaker 9: Your starting offensive line intact for the first time in
Speaker 9: a while. I mean, how is it too much to
Speaker 9: overstate how important that is, especially with cohesiveness of the
Speaker 9: offensive line.
Speaker 2: Well, if we possible overstated, I'm sure you'd find a
Speaker 2: way Jamison, for sure, But I think it's good to
Speaker 2: have all of our guys. Sure, but you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's great, and it gives us more depth, you know. So,
Speaker 2: and you've got guys who've been out there playing. You know,
Speaker 2: they won't have quite as much of a load on them,
Speaker 2: but all those guys will play. I move've got a
Speaker 2: very deep offensive line that's been proven. So you know,
Speaker 2: that makes me really happy as a coach. And I
Speaker 2: think all those guys get a chance to get out
Speaker 2: there and spell each other from time to time maybe,
Speaker 2: and yeah, put an extra alignment on the field. Those
Speaker 2: are all really valuable things for us.
Speaker 3: Move past whatever sickness was kind of flifting.
Speaker 2: A couple guys in on it team seems so yeah,
Speaker 2: it seems like guys are pretty good on the bus
Speaker 2: and everything. Didn't see as many masks, so it was good.
Speaker 7: You've picked in the league since the very first love
Speaker 7: that came in in twenty seventeen, and you have witnessed
Speaker 7: this massive expansion of the NFL. More games coming here
Speaker 7: in Germany's pay possibly. What do you think of this
Speaker 7: massive expansion and do the thing we'll end up with
Speaker 7: the teams over here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm really kind of curious to see
Speaker 2: where it goes, you know, and what what it can
Speaker 2: be and how they would organ and everything. I know,
Speaker 2: Germany's getting the game here. You're getting the Chiefs, getting
Speaker 2: my guy Andy Reid over there, So that'll be that'll
Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. I'm sure. You know. I
Speaker 2: took German in high school and college, so you know,
Speaker 2: I'll be following your reports, you know, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Are there? I assume they're in German in Deutschland, you know,
Speaker 2: so uh spreckency Deutsch ambition, ambition Ambitian Deutsche. Yeah, thanks, good, good,
Speaker 2: So there you go. I mean, there you have it.
Speaker 2: It's all I can say about Germany right there is
Speaker 2: because it's all I remember, yeah, right, my daughter's fluent Japanese.
Speaker 2: That's a long way away.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you're listening to the Ravens Press Pass podcast.
Speaker 1: That was head coach John Harbaugh talking to the media
Speaker 1: after today's final practice in London. Now let's hear from
Speaker 1: tight end Mark Andrews about his preparations for this London game.
Speaker 9: There's always a lot of to talk about, the time
Speaker 9: difference and the sleeping and everything. How do you feel
Speaker 9: like you and the rest of the guys have adjusted
Speaker 9: so far right now?
Speaker 5: I think it's been a for us.
Speaker 10: It's been a good decision to come early, and you know,
Speaker 10: I know, the first couple of days it's tough to
Speaker 10: kind of get your bearings, and you know, I feel
Speaker 10: like now we're starting to feel pretty good, get get
Speaker 10: acclimated to the time, you know, zone, and that's not easy.
Speaker 10: So I think guys are getting good sleep, and I
Speaker 10: think we're pretty fortunate to have come early because it's
Speaker 10: not an easy thing to deal with. How different is
Speaker 10: this to a West Coast game.
Speaker 5: It's pretty different.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's a little bit easier going that
Speaker 10: way than this way, just in terms of being able
Speaker 10: to get acclimated with the time, but yeah, I think
Speaker 10: it's a little bit harder coming out this way.
Speaker 3: Mark coach just mentioned that it is being a good experience.
Speaker 7: I guess the players coach everybody like share you this
Speaker 7: trip Husban for you guys, like being good spirits.
Speaker 5: For this game.
Speaker 10: It's been awesome, you know. He talked about it a
Speaker 10: little bit just being you know, all ball. You know,
Speaker 10: it's it's just been incredible to be to be around
Speaker 10: the guys and you know, just a bonding and experiencing London.
Speaker 10: This is my first time in London and really out
Speaker 10: of the country other than Mexico. So I've been enjoying
Speaker 10: it taking it in man, and the people here are awesome.
Speaker 10: You know, It's different, and so you've got to be
Speaker 10: able to absorb the culture and appreciate that part of
Speaker 10: it in which I am, and uh, I know that
Speaker 10: a lot of everybody else on this team is. And
Speaker 10: it's been a great trip. It's been a great trip
Speaker 10: bringing around the guys and we look forward to this game.
Speaker 10: I think we're a focused group right now.
Speaker 3: How it feels to be.
Speaker 9: Kind of playing at the stadium facilities.
Speaker 10: Yeah, man, it's a beautiful beautiful facility. You know, they're
Speaker 10: they're top notch here and we're thankful that they allowed
Speaker 10: us to come here and see it and practice on it.
Speaker 10: And you know, these guys are you know, like us are.
Speaker 10: They're the best in the world at what they do.
Speaker 10: So a ton of respect for them and a lot
Speaker 10: of respect for this facility.
Speaker 2: They do it well.
Speaker 3: Out on the trip so far.
Speaker 10: I mean I could I could name probably about a
Speaker 10: million things. Man, just being at the hotel, you know,
Speaker 10: being in that close knit group has been awesome. But
Speaker 10: also you know, when I went downtown to central London
Speaker 10: and just seeing how that is, Man, it's, like I said,
Speaker 10: it's different. It's almost like a I don't know how
Speaker 10: to describe it, but it's like a New York Chicago
Speaker 10: type vibe, but different, you know. And I thought it
Speaker 10: was cool. I thought the people were, you know, all
Speaker 10: extremely nice. You know, I'm always willing to offer help
Speaker 10: and be straight to it, be straight to the point.
Speaker 10: I liked that part about the people here in London.
Speaker 10: And yeah, I think I think I'll remember this trip
Speaker 10: for the rest of my life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you were a soccer star where you
Speaker 6: focused on on football, did you have any.
Speaker 3: Aspirations of playing later.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was definitely, you know, way better at playing
Speaker 10: that I was watching, you know, But yeah, I think,
Speaker 10: you know, if I continued, I would have had more
Speaker 10: aspirations to go overseas. I had some buddies that from
Speaker 10: my club that went over and did that sort of thing.
Speaker 10: But I know how tough it is, and being from KA,
Speaker 10: we're not nearly as good.
Speaker 11: So yeah, marked after a game, you know, I know
Speaker 11: you guys have been pasted the last week's game, but
Speaker 11: typically when as a receiving cores, they don't performance balls,
Speaker 11: like do you kind of feel like you do not
Speaker 11: thinking about it, but you want to kind of step
Speaker 11: up and really try to, you know, kind of rectify
Speaker 11: what happened later time.
Speaker 10: I know we got a focused group, you know, just
Speaker 10: kind of the mindset of everybody that receives the bar
Speaker 10: right now. We know the type of players that we have,
Speaker 10: and I think there's a hunger and there's always been that,
Speaker 10: and I know the type of guys that we have
Speaker 10: to be resilient, be persistent, and but just focusing on
Speaker 10: the details because we know we have and it's time
Speaker 10: to go up for us to go out there and
Speaker 10: do it, put our head down, go to work.
Speaker 5: I'm excited about that, man, Mark.
Speaker 8: I know you know this is an adjustment and everything,
Speaker 8: but do you almost feel like and I guess you
Speaker 8: won't know until you play, but do you almost feel
Speaker 8: like this was almost a good week for this coming
Speaker 8: off a bad loss. You're kind of peeled it from
Speaker 8: maybe some of the negativity of that loss. If you
Speaker 8: were back in Baltimore here and listen about it, do
Speaker 8: you do you feel that at all that this was
Speaker 8: kind of good week just to be bonding with your
Speaker 8: teammates and preparing for a.
Speaker 10: Football game that's like a it's like a loaded question,
Speaker 10: you know. I think, you know, having a win, you know,
Speaker 10: under our belt in a game that we clearly should
Speaker 10: have won against a team like that. So, you know,
Speaker 10: I don't think it's ever a good time, but I
Speaker 10: think it's been. It's been nice to be around the guys,
Speaker 10: and it's been nice to be able to bond. And
Speaker 10: but like I said, I think, you know, you look
Speaker 10: at Adele said yesterday just watching it through and through
Speaker 10: the media a little bit, and you know, I think
Speaker 10: he's got I think those guys have an incredible view
Speaker 10: and outlook of what we have to do and our
Speaker 10: job to be done, and all eleven guys on the
Speaker 10: field at the same time doing their job.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Mark ecuse John thought Wednesday about just how he
Speaker 6: had a forty five minute team meeting with you guys.
Speaker 6: Was the heard that meeting, the length of it anything
Speaker 6: out of your ordinary?
Speaker 10: No, you know, I And the beautiful thing is, you know,
Speaker 10: it's you know, obviously not a good not a good
Speaker 10: you know job and the last Sunday. But it's a
Speaker 10: long season. You know, we have an opportunity to get
Speaker 10: back ahead and and and have a good game. So
Speaker 10: uh does said it yesterday? You know, no team won
Speaker 10: a Super Bowl week, you know, five or six, So
Speaker 10: we're four or five. So we're gonna work on getting
Speaker 10: better and we're gonna be a hungry group. I'm excited
Speaker 10: to be lasered in with the guys this week.
Speaker 7: Earlier today, it was confirmed that flag football will be
Speaker 7: an Olympics port in the twenty twenty eight And what.
Speaker 3: Do you think that will mean to American football and joining.
Speaker 7: Hill a team.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think you could put Tyreek out there and
Speaker 10: you probably just do the job himself. But yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 10: You know, obviously playing in the Pro Bowl, I got
Speaker 10: an idea of how that could work out and that
Speaker 10: was a great time. So I know those guys can fly,
Speaker 10: and you know, some of those guys playing flag football.
Speaker 10: Flag football will be pretty special. So I got a
Speaker 10: few plays in mind of last year's Pro Bowl which
Speaker 10: were pretty fun.
Speaker 2: How do you.
Speaker 4: Feel about the explosion of popularity that the tight End
Speaker 4: Provision have been the last weeks.
Speaker 10: Yeah, obviously, you know a lot of a lot of
Speaker 10: buzz and social media about uh, you know Trav and
Speaker 10: obviously uh Taylor Swift and that's an exciting thing, you know,
Speaker 10: and you know, I think all the tight Ends are.
Speaker 10: You know, he's a he's the type of guy that
Speaker 10: he's he's been raising the bar for for a long time.
Speaker 12: It's obviously a bit different to when you play in America, Like,
Speaker 12: what do you think the atmosphere will feel like?
Speaker 10: You know, I hope that they go out there and
Speaker 10: just have a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Man, be loud.
Speaker 10: I know those soccer games are football games. I know
Speaker 10: they go crazy, So I'm expecting that, you know, even
Speaker 10: if they don't know what's really going on. Man, if
Speaker 10: someone makes a play, just go wild' you know, do
Speaker 10: your thing. I'm excited to see it. I'm excited to
Speaker 10: be in the atmosphere and being this culture and really
Speaker 10: good to feel for it.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Ravens Press Past podcast. You just
Speaker 1: heard from Mark Andrews and now, last but not least,
Speaker 1: here's what cornerback Marlon Humphrey had to stay to the
Speaker 1: media after practice today.
Speaker 3: I been this week for you guys. Coach mentioned there,
Speaker 3: guys have good spirits for you. You guys went you
Speaker 3: were here last time. Yeah, I was the difference between that.
Speaker 10: Time and now.
Speaker 13: Obviously we got here a little bit earlier in the week,
Speaker 13: but I would say it's actually been a big difference.
Speaker 13: We really got to see a little a lot more
Speaker 13: London obviously at this awesome facility is pretty cool, so
Speaker 13: we got to see the weight room and everything, and
Speaker 13: we got to.
Speaker 5: See the real football over here.
Speaker 13: So it's, uh, it's it's been nice to kind of
Speaker 13: early in the week kind of get to see London
Speaker 13: later in the week focused on football. So it's been
Speaker 13: a it's been a really good mix of the two
Speaker 13: to where you know, I think whether you come on
Speaker 13: Monday or or Friday, you know, the guys want to
Speaker 13: see London, so it's better I think to get it
Speaker 13: out of the way.
Speaker 12: Early now compared to like twenty seventeen as far as
Speaker 12: just you're feeling and sleep wise and you know, just
Speaker 12: do you feel like you're way more adjusted now than
Speaker 12: you know six years ago at the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 13: That was my rookie season, so everything was pretty exciting
Speaker 13: for me. But I think for most of the guys
Speaker 13: earlier in the week everyone was like, man, the flight,
Speaker 13: But now it's everyone's waking up pretty normal now. So
Speaker 13: I would say for the team and everyone feels a
Speaker 13: little bit just better sleepwise.
Speaker 11: It just.
Speaker 3: Do you have a specific strategy to do you Jenny, like.
Speaker 13: I did a They've We've had a lot of different
Speaker 13: options for us. So last night we had a guess
Speaker 13: a breath work sleep thing. It was it was on
Speaker 13: zoom and then you just kind of just fell asleep.
Speaker 5: So that worked pretty well.
Speaker 13: There's been a lot of different things with our nutritionness
Speaker 13: and different planning to kind of if you still have
Speaker 13: jet lag. I think I think it's just about all
Speaker 13: all done with now, But it was it was kind
Speaker 13: of recommended plans for what you should do, and I
Speaker 13: think most guys kind of abided by it.
Speaker 7: Well, the nature if you have two losses, and also
Speaker 7: with the twenty seven team came in mind. How important
Speaker 7: is it for you to make a statement on some I.
Speaker 5: Think yes, it's big.
Speaker 13: You know, every time I tell the London story, it's
Speaker 13: always ended with bad.
Speaker 5: So that's been the biggest thing.
Speaker 13: You know, you you come all the way this far,
Speaker 13: you know, got some fans I might have never seen
Speaker 13: the game before, so many exciting things going on and
Speaker 13: it's all cool, but the biggest thing for us is
Speaker 13: you want to win. I think it just it sucks
Speaker 13: to come this far in front of great fans and
Speaker 13: then lou so we're I know, for me, a lot.
Speaker 5: Of I'm like the old guy. So a lot of guys.
Speaker 13: Went on the team in twenty seventeen, but me and
Speaker 13: the guys that were were just like, let's just win
Speaker 13: this one in that flight home and be a lot
Speaker 13: more fun.
Speaker 3: Talking about fans that But how you finding what you're
Speaker 3: expecting from the.
Speaker 13: Crowd for see this week, I anticipate a lot of
Speaker 13: different jerseys. I think that's what I remember last from
Speaker 13: last year. Uh, talking to some to some guys. I
Speaker 13: think maybe Tuesday, he said, O'Dell inspired him to go
Speaker 13: to a field and try football out for one day
Speaker 13: from that from that one handed catch, So I think
Speaker 13: it'll be pretty exciting. I'm not sure what who know,
Speaker 13: what's going on, different things, but I'm really excited to
Speaker 13: play in front of them. I think anytime you can bring,
Speaker 13: you know, American football to to another country, it's really exciting.
Speaker 13: And I know the game is starting to grow a
Speaker 13: little more, so hopefully we get a lot of Ravens
Speaker 13: fans at bar performance Sunday.
Speaker 3: Marln you came back just last week. Obviously you only
Speaker 3: had a couple of practice. It's just curious where you
Speaker 3: feel like you're at in terms of where you want
Speaker 3: to be or expect to be, you know, physic fleet
Speaker 3: all resetate.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I'm still kind of I'm working to
Speaker 13: get to where I want to be.
Speaker 5: Obviously from you, it was it was weird.
Speaker 13: It seems like man, it was it was a lot
Speaker 13: just not being able to play for a while. So
Speaker 13: I you know, I think they know me pretty well.
Speaker 13: They knew as soon as I could practice, I was
Speaker 13: going to try to play. So I'm getting there to
Speaker 13: work in progress, but we've been doing a pretty good
Speaker 13: pitch count how many players I get getting back into
Speaker 13: the groove of things, and I think it's working pretty well.
Speaker 13: So as as the week's go on, I think it
Speaker 13: would just you know, get better and better, get used
Speaker 13: to how I feel different things. But once you get
Speaker 13: out there, you know, you've got to put everything to
Speaker 13: this side and just play.
Speaker 6: Marle And you've been teammates with Brokon for I guess
Speaker 6: close to a year, and now you know, I'm sure
Speaker 6: you've kind of thought it up communication with your podcasting work,
Speaker 6: with your attending with the broadcasts, Will of the NFL
Speaker 6: does what kind of sticks out the bed to you
Speaker 6: about bro Kwona Just kind of his ability to communicating,
Speaker 6: connect with people.
Speaker 13: I think Rokwon's probably out of all the guys that
Speaker 13: ever been on, he's probably one of the best communicators
Speaker 13: of them all, whether it's on the field, but off
Speaker 13: the field as well. I think it didn't it didn't
Speaker 13: take him long to know everybody in the building's name
Speaker 13: really quick, and he has a unique ability to be
Speaker 13: able to, you know, critique without you know, the guy's
Speaker 13: feeling attacked. And I think that's that's really key when
Speaker 13: it comes to a leader. There's there's a lot of
Speaker 13: tough conversations you got to have, but it takes a
Speaker 13: really a top dog leader to be able to do that.
Speaker 13: So that's something I hadn't seen in the really since
Speaker 13: Terrell Suggs left on this team as far as a
Speaker 13: guy that can grab whoever tell him, hey.
Speaker 5: Let's get this right.
Speaker 13: Even even today I went to say something to a rookie,
Speaker 13: I was like, your ro blah blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 13: And basically, you know, it's it's kind of like our
Speaker 13: defense runs through row and so he leads us really well.
Speaker 2: So of course at a sort of stadium justin talker,
Speaker 2: I guess perhaps fating that you know he'll get to
Speaker 2: playing such an arena.
Speaker 3: Just how special as to this team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's legit. We were talking about uh coult the
Speaker 5: the footballers.
Speaker 13: Kick like him and he was like, it would take
Speaker 13: some time, but he thinks they could do it.
Speaker 5: But he's he's as funny as it gets.
Speaker 13: If there was a mic in our team meetings, it
Speaker 13: would I think everyone would get a good laugh.
Speaker 5: He's always got his his jokes.
Speaker 13: He does the thing every week with the with a
Speaker 13: certain jokes, so he's he keeps everybody laughing.
Speaker 5: If you ever ask him about kicking.
Speaker 13: Field goals, he'll tell you a story an answer so
Speaker 13: long you'll kind of lose interest because there's so much
Speaker 13: that goes into his thought process. But that's a great
Speaker 13: teammate to have. Obviously one of the best kickers in
Speaker 13: the in the in the league, so you know, anytime
Speaker 13: he kind of goes out there, we kind of think
Speaker 13: the job's already done.
Speaker 5: But a great teammate to have.
Speaker 3: And do you come away from from this week's.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I am, I am. I.
Speaker 13: I gotta watch more soccer now. So I feel like
Speaker 13: since I've been here, this has got to be my
Speaker 13: squad and uh, I will be watching more football in
Speaker 13: the in the future, So excited for that, Marlyn.
Speaker 8: How do you evaluate how Brandon Stevens has played?
Speaker 5: I think you guys have talked.
Speaker 8: About him, and John Harpy has talked about how he
Speaker 8: well he practices and what kind of player is for
Speaker 8: a couple of years now, but on a consistent basis,
Speaker 8: I don't know that anyone else has seen it like
Speaker 8: he's played.
Speaker 3: How do you think he started?
Speaker 13: Yeah, so when I was watching the first four games.
Speaker 13: You know, I really, I mean, even until now, I
Speaker 13: feel like Brandon Stevens is playing at a pro Bowl level.
Speaker 13: I think, you know, for the for the years in
Speaker 13: the past, we all knew kind of the ability he had,
Speaker 13: and it it was showing in practice, wasn't always shown
Speaker 13: in the games, and I think this year's really kind
Speaker 13: of taken off and just kind of you know, to
Speaker 13: some it might be a surprise, but to the people internally,
Speaker 13: he was always coached in that fashion.
Speaker 5: He was always talked about in high regards.
Speaker 13: So it's really good to kind of see that showing
Speaker 13: up on the field day in and day out. And
Speaker 13: so that's you know, as I was, wh I was
Speaker 13: like for the first four weeks not playing, I'm just like,
Speaker 13: I'm almost felt like I was a coach slash fan
Speaker 13: on the sideline and I'm just like, and Brandon Stevens
Speaker 13: is playing like really high level football, And I think
Speaker 13: that's just a testament to just continue to work, even
Speaker 13: when the results don't always show up on the field.
Speaker 13: If you continue to work, it'll eventually show up.
Speaker 6: I know you're peck injury couple years back season and
Speaker 6: not all pack indies are the same. But what have
Speaker 6: you kind of learned about Marks Williams and just kind
Speaker 6: of what he's going through right now and playing with
Speaker 6: the artists, but you.
Speaker 3: Know, kind of working his way back to the kind
Speaker 3: of level.
Speaker 11: That you guys expected.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a that's a weird question because with Marcus
Speaker 13: a d D World, I kind of started thinking, I'm
Speaker 13: like a baby, I'm like, these guys are like playing
Speaker 13: through this. I'm like, I left to him and I
Speaker 13: was like, I'm not going back in the game. So man,
Speaker 13: it's it's obviously you see him working out all the time.
Speaker 5: He's obviously something really tough to play with being a safety.
Speaker 13: But I think, you know, as kind of similar to me,
Speaker 13: as the week's going, he'll just get better and better
Speaker 13: with dealing with something that severe but being able to
Speaker 13: play with it. So I know it's really tough on him,
Speaker 13: but he doesn't really complain, just kind of goes about
Speaker 13: his work.
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